Wilson, Douglas L., ed; Davis, Rodney O., ed. 'Register of Informants' in 'Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln' . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. [format: book], [genre: history]. Permission: University of Illinois Press
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The second child of Mary Ann and James Rutledge, one of the founders of New Salem, and the brother of Ann Rutledge. John Rutledge was living in New Salem in 1829 and during the Black Hawk War served as a private in AL's company. After the deaths of his father and sister in 1835, he and his family moved to Fulton County, Illinois, and later to Van Buren County, Iowa. (Camerons: Westward They Came; Walsh; Whitney)